The air in the Drum Kingdom is always so cold, and coupled with the bleak atmosphere around it, pedestrians always feel like falling into an ice cave. Because of Valpo's orders, the streets of the kingdom have long been sparsely scattered with patrolling soldiers, carefully inspecting every corner in the cold mist, according to the captain of the guard, Dalton, the murderous sea pirate Auston. Harvey has shown signs of being seen in this area, and his target is likely to be the Drum Kingdom!

More well-equipped, well-trained guards had already lined up at the gates of the King's Castle, which was a very difficult terrain, and these soldiers had a firm grasp of the superiority, both in numbers and in other respects. But judging by their trembling bodies and tightly curled lips, they didn't look like they were winning.

A soldier beside Dalton who looked like a squad leader turned around the group and asked, "Sir, is that pirate really coming?" After all, the Magnetic Drum Kingdom has not had so much wealth over the years, and presumably the pirates will not be eyeing such a barren target......"

"You know what!" The good-natured escort captain Dalton uncharacteristically reprimanded the squad leader, "Just now, a fisherman fishing in the surrounding waters told me that a galleon that I had never seen broke into here, although the nearby waters were covered with fog today, but they could clearly see that the ship was flying the black pirate flag!" ”

Dalton paused, stuck out his tongue and subconsciously licked his chapped lips, "Although I don't know if it's Harvey and his gang, it's certain that there are pirates who have landed in this country." ”

……

The farther away from the forest, the more you can feel the breath of civilization, after crossing the last forest that obscures the view, Harvey and the others saw scattered huts scattered in the snow, those are the houses where the people who live from this forest live, maybe because the weather is too cold, there is no owner in those wooden houses, and there are many reindeer herds entrenched here, in the wooden houses to resist the cold wind in the forest.

The reindeer scattered when they saw someone passing by, and some of the bold ones had their heads down and pointed their heavy horns at the uninvited guests. Harvey didn't have the same knowledge as these reindeer, and after observing for a while and not finding any blue-nosed reindeer, Harvey left the place disappointed.

"Hmm, I thought I could catch it back as a pet." Harvey reluctantly glanced back at the reindeer herd that had gathered again because the humans had left, "Sure enough, I still haven't found it?" ”

"According to you, these reindeer are usually driven away by the herd. With a blue nose, those ordinary reindeer probably wouldn't recognize such a companion. "Besides, this reindeer has a lot of hair to resist the cold, and it looks quite big, but it doesn't actually have much meat." ”

So your most intuitive definition of an animal is how much meat there is?

After leaving the herd of deer, it didn't take long to enter the city of the kingdom, but it was even more deserted than the edge of the forest where the deer were entrenched, at least there were a few deer herds there. But here, Harvey pointed to the dilapidated streets and houses in front of him, the doors and windows around him closed. Even the usual noisy taverns closed their doors, "This is the Kingdom of Magnetic Drums?" It's a little better than a small broken village. ”

"Maybe we've learned about the pirates' attack and are hiding, after all, we didn't hide our whereabouts when we came here."

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Jim felt that he was simply terrible today, he only sent a bunch of Baileys a month ago and said a lot of good things, so he got an errand in the Kingdom Guard, and even made a familiar face in front of the captain, he thought he could finally get ahead, but today he was told that there was a sea pirate who had his eye on the country, and Captain Dalton asked all the soldiers to assemble in front of the castle. There, with a strong fortress, resist the incoming pirates.

Jim sneered in his heart, he was a man who had followed his father to the sea when he was a child, although he had only been working on a merchant ship, but he was still a man who had seen the sea, and he was better than those who had lived on a small island all his life, at least he thought so. He knew what the real pirates were, and when he heard that a pirate was eyeing the country, Jim's legs went limp.

After using illness as an excuse to shirk the gathering, perhaps because the situation was too urgent, Captain Dalton did not even question him, but assigned him and some of the soldiers the task of patrolling the streets. Patrol and patrol, as long as it's not with those fools at the gate of the castle tough pirates, he'll do whatever he wants.

However, Jim was quite concerned about this patrol mission, and the residents of the neighborhood near the forest in his charge closed the door and hid in their homes under his arrangement, which is also a common way for ordinary people to deal with pirates. After the pirates ransacked the royal palace, they generally lost interest in these ordinary residents, and the murderous pirates who would burn the entire country to the ground were rare, and most of them were just for money.

After inspecting the entire neighborhood again, Jim was about to go back to rest, when he suddenly noticed several figures standing suddenly on the already empty street.

"Didn't these guys already tell them ....... not to linger on the streets?" Jim walked over scolding, the fog blowing from the forest made him not see very clearly, but from the figure, there were a few tall guys among those people, were they woodcutters who had just come down from the mountain? Jim suppressed his doubts and continued to walk towards the men.

"You ......" Jim was stuck in his throat before he could say anything, and after seeing the faces of the people in front of him, Jim's mouth couldn't close. He knew these people on the bounty order posted on the wall of the bar not long ago. This time, the pirates who put the entire kingdom on guard stood in front of him.

"Ahh The leading pirate, wearing a top hat and a long knife in his hand, smiled and said, "Can you take us to Valpo?" We just don't want to go around in circles. ”